{"id":11443,"date":"2012-05-22T02:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T01:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2012-05-22T02:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T01:30:56","slug":"the-art-of-juan-de-valdes-leal-1622-1690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/22\/the-art-of-juan-de-valdes-leal-1622-1690\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Juan de Vald\u00e9s Leal, 1622\u20131690"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:In_ictu_oculi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leal1.jpg\" alt=\"leal1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In ictu oculi (1672).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having castigated Somerset Maugham yesterday for a novel that even he professed to dislike, thanks can be offered for the passage in <em>The Magician<\/em> which draws attention to a painter I hadn&#8217;t come across before. With a scythe-wielding skeleton snuffing a candle flame, and a bishop rotting in his casket, these are a very Spanish take on the <em>vanitas<\/em> genre. Some of the subsequent works of Salvador Dal\u00ed and Luis Bu\u00f1uel are less surprising when you see art that&#8217;s this grotesque.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leal2.jpg\" alt=\"leal2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Finis gloria mundi (1672).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/21\/alfred-rethels-totentanz\/\">Alfred Rethel\u2019s Totentanz<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/15\/the-art-of-jacopo-ligozzi-1547\u20131627\/\">The art of Jacopo Ligozzi, 1547\u20131627<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/06\/30\/massachusetts-memento-mori\/\">Massachusetts memento mori<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/12\/skull-cameras\/\">Skull cameras<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/20\/walmor-correas-memento-mori\/\">Walmor Corr\u00eaa\u2019s Memento Mori<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/08\/the-skull-beneath-the-skin\/\">The skull beneath the skin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/24\/vanitas-paintings\/\">Vanitas paintings<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/18\/very-hungry-god\/\">Very Hungry God<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/15\/history-of-the-skull-as-symbol\/\">History of the skull as symbol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ictu oculi (1672). Having castigated Somerset Maugham yesterday for a novel that even he professed to dislike, thanks can be offered for the passage in The Magician which draws attention to a painter I hadn&#8217;t come across before. With a scythe-wielding skeleton snuffing a candle flame, and a bishop rotting in his casket, these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/22\/the-art-of-juan-de-valdes-leal-1622-1690\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Juan de Vald\u00e9s Leal, 1622\u20131690&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,18],"tags":[3712,3639,87,3707],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-juan-de-valdes-leal","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-salvador-dali","tag-somerset-maugham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}